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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
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The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
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The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
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Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows
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Caution is the lower story of prudence.
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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.
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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
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A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
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Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet not so the transition from the former to the latter.
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